Am 18.06.2015 um 22:55 schrieb Lars Schneider:
AFAIK Git has two ways to clone a repository with respect to submodules: (1) Plain clone of just the repository itself: git clone git://github.com/foo/bar.git (2) Recursive clone of the repository including all its submodules: git clone --recursive git://github.com/foo/bar.git I am working on a big cross platform project and on certain platforms I don't
> need certain submodules. AFAIK there is no way to selectively clone only a > subset of the submodules with the standard command line interface. I wonder
if something like an exclude pattern for submodules would be of general interest.
> I imagine a call like this after a plain "clone" operation:
git submodule update --init --recursive --exclude 3rdParty/Windows/*
Git already supports that use case: Just set the "submodule.<name>.update" configuration to "none" for all submodules you aren't interested in and "git submodule update" will always skip them. You can also set this config option globally: git config --global submodule.<name>.update=none That'll set the default for all repositories of the logged in user on this computer to not update submodule <name>.
or even: git clone --recursive --exclude 3rdParty/Windows/* git://github.com/foo/bar.git
git clone will be influenced by the global setting. If you just want to skip submodule <name> for a single clone you can do it like this: git -c submodule.<name>.update=none clone --recursive git://github.com/foo/bar.git -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in